Challenge Summary
Welcome to the Styx Application Splash Screen Redesign Contest. This contest is focus to redesign existing splash screens to get new Hi-Quality Design of Splash Screen Graphic and also provide animation idea to live it up our current design.
Round 1
Your submitted design solutions for a review.
- Enhanced Looks and Feel of Splash Screen(s)
- Animation idea of Splash Screen(s) Please submit any image to explains your solution.
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client
Round 2
Final Login Screens = Final All requested items
- Enhanced Looks and Feel of Splash Screen(s)
- Animation idea of Splash Screen(s) Please submit any image to explains your solution.
Notes.jpg: Any comments about your design for the Client
Contest Details
Styx is a company that provides video surveillance equipments (.e.g. Camera, DVRs) for the Mobile systems: such as Buses, School buses, Rails etc. "Mobile Software" is an existing application that manages all to these cameras/DVRs which are installed on the Bus. Typically whenever bus returns back the bus depot, it will connect to Mobile software using WiFi network. The current application is a Windows based client application.
Design Requirements
Before you improve our existing splash screen, here's some best practice designs that might help you:
http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fireworks-cs5-splash-screen.th.png
http://dzineblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/SplashScreen/4-Maya/1.jpg www.firstpartners.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/red-hat-splash-screen.jpg
http://ooodocs.sourceforge.net/graphics/ooo-splash-idea.gif
http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.netscape.com/media/2007/09/splash-4.png?1190642901373
http://notesdesignblog.com/NotesDesignBlog/NDBlog.nsf/dx/notes-8.5-splash-screen-with-progress-indicator.htm/content/M2?OpenElement
http://www.adamosgood.com/folio/design/viewpoint/viewpoint_splash.jpg
- This screen is the first page user sees everytime they launch the application. We need you redesign our existing splash screen design (old-splash-screen.jpg) so it will bring NEW Look and Feel that will impress our current and potential customers of our application. - Splash Screen will be implementated under Winform .Net 4.0 (C#).
- Splash screen required size is 500px x 350px.
- Our main concern of this contest is to redesign the bus graphic and the animation idea. Instead of one bus picture. We want show three vehicles ("School Bus", "Train" and "City Bus") from back to front. We want very professional graphics with details, shades etc.
- Animation should be fast, whole animation should happen within 1 - 3 seconds. Animation must only looping once.
- We're open to any cool animation idea. Impress Us!!
- We need you provide any timeline (frame by frame) or any notes that help future animator that will build the animation effects easily. Remember, we need .gif format file as the finals graphics format.
- We don't like current background. We're thinking some black with some reflection. Or any ideas from you?
- Put "Styx Video Sync Tool" as the application title. Suggest us best placement.
- Put logo placehoder somewhere in screens, size. Suggest us proper size.
- We don't want standard windows border around the screen. Suggest us where to put the "x" close button.
- No need "Mobile" and "Version 0.0.0.8" texts in our updated splash screen. But we still need the other "Designed for..." and "Powered by..." text. Improve this! suggest us new typography, alignment, position etc. Also they need editable.
- "User Name", "Password", "Login" and "Forgot" Form Elements should remain same. They will using standard style from the application.
- We're looking for professional animation effects. Some examples just for references are:
--- http://koolmoves.com/ look for effect "Create HTML5 Canvas ..." text on the right
--- Also another link for some more cool animation effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u78lW_qDPRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFSEsEZnnE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEhFAgbHxE
Target User
- Potential Customer
- Current Customer
Judging Criteria
- High Quality and cleanliness of your Splash Screen graphics.
- Splash Screens Animation Idea.
- Innovation, creativity and originality.
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 800x800 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it. You are free to resize or crop your submission to fit this size, but do not add any filters or elements for dramatic effect, such as drop shadows or reflections.
Submission File
All Requested Contest Submission Requirements stated above.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.